At a time when anti-Indian sentiment is rampant on social media, it took a simple post about house-hunting in Texas to set off a pointed defence of H-1B visa holders.
It came straight from a payment app CEO who put his own family’s story on the table.
The flashpoint reportedly was a screenshot circulating in which a user asked for recommendations on new construction homes in Frisco or Prosper, Texas, with a budget of $1 million to $2 million.
The post, routine enough on its own, was seized upon by a Texan who shared it with a sharply worded commentary accusing Telugus of living in overcrowded conditions back home, arriving in the US on fraudulent documents through the H-1B lottery, and then inexplicably affording million-dollar homes.
That was enough to draw a response from a CEO of a payment app, who said he could not understand what was objectionable about a desi wanting to purchase property.
He pointed out that H-1B workers routinely earn six-figure salaries in technology roles, and that nothing prevented any American from entering the same field through education and hard work.
He went further, making it personal. He said that 15 of his cousins had come to the US on H-1B visas, that all of them earned six or seven figures annually, that all of them owned homes and had become citizens, and that his family collectively had paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes.
Calling what he described as unfounded grievance, he said avenues for wealth-building were equally open to them.
He reportedly suggested they explore purchasing motels, pointing to listing platforms and SBA loans as accessible starting points. He said there were thousands of hotel properties for sale across the country. He added that nothing stopped anyone from founding a technology company, raising capital, or hiring staff, and that white Americans had been doing exactly that alongside everyone else.
The exchange is one of several such episodes fuelled by anti-Indian and anti-H-1B handles that have been circulating screenshots from Indian community groups on social media as part of what observers describe as an ongoing hate campaign.
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